On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:51:08PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:28:14PM +0000, Ben Wheeler wrote: > > This episode has raised an interesting point. It took me a couple of days > > to realise that mail had dried up and check the paniclog. Mail going down > > is the one thing you won't be mailed about. So I've added > > mail.err * > > to /etc/syslog.conf in the hope that I won't be left in the dark > > about it in future. > > Does not work, since exim does not log through syslog.
Not exim, no, but cronjob /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base monitors paniclog and logs through syslog with priority mail.alert if there's something in there (probably more than once a day would be better but there's other stuff in there too). I got these in /var/log/mail.err: Oct 29 06:26:44 fermi exim4: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken Oct 30 06:26:37 fermi exim4: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken Oct 31 06:26:58 fermi exim4: ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken No use to me in there, since if mail is down I won't get my logwatch mails :) So that extra line in syslog.conf will send it to every console every morning until I get the rotation sorted out... Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
